Luke,
Chapter 1, verse 13:
13 But the angel
said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been
heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall name him John.
To a
Pious Jew and especially a Levi priest the knowledge that God is so holy we
dare not even say His name. Notice frequently in the bible the angels will use
the term, “Do not be afraid”, and is because at times we knowing our sinfulness
may not feel worthy. Feeling unworthy is a tool the evil one often uses to
discourage us from doing good works.
I have
felt this fear of being unworthy often. In the mid-seventies while still a
youth in my 20’s I was chosen to be a lay Eucharistic minister while working at
the South Pole in Antarctica by the priest that had come 900 miles to bring our
Lord to us catholic boys working I didn’t feel worthy; come on this is Richard
you know; but the Priest convinced me that it was the only way and I did want
to bring “Our Lord” to my fellow brothers in Christ.
We must remember that the evil one will sow fear in
our hearts trying to convince us we are unworthy and if we listen we become
like the man who out of fear buried his talent in the ground.
Come to deliver us, and tarry
not.
O Root of Jesse, who stands for an
ensign of the people, before whom kings shall keep silence and unto whom the
Gentiles shall make supplication: Come to deliver us, and tarry not.
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